RARE 1969 High Tide Sea Shanties SEALED Vinyl Record LST-7638 prog psychedelic
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Up for auction is a 1969 rock album that is still SEALED! from the band High Tide and the album is called "Sea Shanties." The album's plastic wrap is still tight around the whole record except for a very small 1" area along the top right. There's a corner that's been rounded and I believe that might mean it's a promotional copy but not sure. Overall, the condition of the record is really GREAT! and displays really nicely. The reflections and darker spots in the photos are reflections and NOT on the album. Please see photos for a more detailed description of the items. I am not a record collector so please ask me any questions and I will do my best to answer them. Thanks so much. I only sell and ship within the U.S. Shipping is $7.95
I found this article about the band in allmusic :
Sea Shanties Review
by Wilson Neate
[-]With the Misunderstood, Tony Hill co-wrote epochal psych-rock anthems like "Children of the Sun"; however, while High Tide's sound has roots in the peace-and-love era, the band was also in tune with the post-psychedelic comedown at the decade's darker end. On Sea Shanties, there's nothing fey and flowery in Hill's bleak lyrics or his doomy Jim Morrison-like delivery, and psychedelia's melodic whimsy is supplanted by a physicality more in line with the visceral heft of metal progenitors such as Cream, Blue Cheer, and the Jeff Beck Group. Hill's grinding riffage and searing, effects-laden guitar pyrotechnics combine with the punishing rhythms of drummer Roger Hadden and bassist Pete Pavli to forge some of the heavier sounds to emerge from Britain in 1969: tracks like "Futilist's Lament" are matched only by Led Zeppelin for sheer weight. High Tide weren't a power trio, though, and it was the interplay of Hill's guitar with Simon House's violin that created the band's unique signature. Showing that rock violin needn't be a marginal adornment, House whips up an aggressive edge that rivals the guitar: on the nine-minute "Death Warmed Up," House refuses to play second fiddle and matches Hill's scorching assault all the way, while on the album's other epic, "Missing Out," the violin generates a trance-inducing Eastern groove. High Tide had the muscularity of a no-nonsense proto-metal band, but they also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate faux-Baroque interludes. Indeed, "Pushed, but Not Forgotten" and "Walking Down Their Outlook" share common ground with King Crimson (especially Crimson's mid-'70s work with violinist David Cross). Far from the collection of nautical ditties its name suggests, Sea Shanties is an overlooked gem encapsulating the shifting musical currents in late-'60s British rock.
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